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In a decision dated 19 March 2025, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) served formal notice on Eutelsat to stop broadcasting two Russian channels, STS and Kanal 5. These channels are among the 28 Russian media undertakings controlled by the Russian company JSC National Media Group, which has seen its financial resources frozen pursuant to Article 2 of the EU Council Regulation of 17 March 2014, resulting in a ban on transmission of these channels. In so doing, ARCOM is, for the first time, implementing...

La Quadrature du net, the Ligue des droits de l'homme, residents of New Caledonia and others asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State), on the grounds of abuse of power, to annul the French prime minister’s decision of 14 May 2024 to interrupt access to the online public communication service TikTok in New Caledonia due to exceptional circumstances. The prime minister lifted this measure on 29 May 2024. At the same time, a decree issued by the Council of Ministers on 15 May 2024 declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia with effect from the same day. This ended 12 days later,...

NRJ 12 and C8 asked the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) to annul the decision taken by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) not to renew their digital terrestrial television licences on the grounds that it had exceeded its powers. They also requested the annulment of ARCOM’s decision to grant licences to Ouest-France TV and CMI France, as well as its decision not to allocate all the frequencies mentioned in the call for applications after the Canal Plus group announced it was removing...

Amended by the Loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (Law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space) of 21 May 2024, Articles 10 et seq. of the Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy) gave the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) the power to impose financial penalties against and block or delist pornographic websites that remain accessible to minors in violation of Article 227-24...

The decree issued by the Ministry of Culture publishing the release window agreement of 6 February 2025 extends for three years the previous agreement signed in 2022, which has now expired. Although the parties wished to maintain the general principles of the previous agreement, the position of individual broadcasters may change depending on their commitment to film funding. The 2022 agreement, which has now been renewed, shortened the distribution time for films following their release in cinemas to four months for sales and rentals (DVD, VOD, Blu-ray), six months for Canal+ and OCS (compared...